Editing The Pen Addict 13/transcript (section)

== PairNote App ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. Let's, before we do any more, let's talk about our second sponsor this week.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And that is PairNote. PairNote is a note-taking app with a difference. PairNote allows you to take notes whilst recording audio and video at the same time, effortlessly syncing their timelines together to create a note-taking experience like no other. Yeah. PairNote not only remembers what you typed, but when you typed it. So if you're going through your notes of last week's meeting and you see a sentence you'd like more context of, click the first word and press the play button and you'll hear the audio that was recorded at that exact time. So if you're in a meeting, Brad, and your PairNote allows you to, whilst you're taking notes, record the audio of the meeting that you're involved in. So if you need to check something in a couple of weeks' time and you have a note that you need more context of, like you've typed something and it doesn't make much sense to you, like Steve asked us to pick up 20, for example, and you don't know what, you know, if they were just your text notes, that would be it then. You'd have to ask Steve what you said and you're going to look silly. But with PairNote, all you do is you click where you typed Steve, press the play button and the app is very sophisticated in that it knows exactly when in that timeline, the audio recording, when you type that note and it just starts playing it from that point.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I was not familiar with PairNote before, you know, we got the sponsorship and you sent me the link and this is one of the coolest apps I've ever seen. I mean, as far as the usefulness of it goes, if I was a student, this would be mandatory.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. This is massive for students, this app.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, you walk into class, you hit record and you start typing the notes and afterwards you come home from your lecture. If you're studying again and you have a gap in your notes or you didn't understand it, you just, like you said, you click on the word to go back to that piece of the recording and the recording just starts playing and you can flesh out your notes that way. I was just, it really kind of knocked my socks off. I was like, why didn't I have this when I was a student? Exactly. And from a meeting aspect, it works the same way. I mean, you know, it would be extremely, extremely useful. It looks fantastic. Fantastic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And if you're wanting to listen back to that lecture, if you just say you want to start it from the start or from any point, as you're listening back through the audio or watching the video, you will see as the video or the audio is going along, as the timeline progresses, all of your notes start to highlight as you type them. So you're able to keep track with yourself. It's absolutely fantastic. To see it really is magic. And there's a demo available at usefulfruit.com, which is the name of the website. It's the name of the company that makes it. And you can go there. You can watch the video there. You can get more information as well. Version 3 of Perno is now available. It features Lion, features like autosave versions and full screen mode. You can get it from the Mac App Store, directly from usefulfruit.com, and you can also get a 30-day free trial from the website too. So there you go.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely check it out. And I could even see myself using it from a pen review perspective because you can shoot the video. I can sync up the notes with that and you can export it all out and I could share it on the blog. It's really, really handy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There are many uses and they're going to be sponsoring us for the rest of May. So we've got a few more weeks with them. And as we go through, I'm going to be telling you about some of the other awesome use cases and features of Perno. Very cool. So have you got anything else you want to add today?